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Prepare Electrical Connections

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What happens here

To correctly connect the power supply to the extension cord, you'll need to understand the wiring color codes. The presenter refers to the input label on the Mean Well power supply, which indicates: Green/Yellow for ground, Brown for ACL (Alternating Current Live), and Blue for ACN (Alternating Current Neutral). The extension cord typically has green for ground, white for neutral, and black for live. Before making any connections, slide two pieces of heat shrink tubing, each about 1 to 1.5 inches in length, over the extension cord wires. This is crucial because they won't fit over the finished splices. These will be used later for insulation.

Goal: Understand wire color codes and pre-position insulation.

Tools and materials

  • 25 ft 14g Extension Cord — The main power cord to be adapted
  • Power Supply Mean Well — Identifying wire color codes for correct connection
  • Wire Strippers — Stripping insulation from the ends of the wires on both the power supply and the extension cord
  • Heat Shrink Tubing — Insulating the electrical connections after crimping

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ready to start the process of connecting our two cords together so i have my transformer right here it's got a black wire coming out it's got a three wires in it it's got a and i would they call it a brown i would call it maybe a pink i don't know a red but um looks this will call it brown a blue and a green and on my extension cord that i bought i cut it right here cut about i don't know it's about four feet off of it right there i separate it i've got a green i got a white and a black so you need to know which ones go where and i looked it up online to save you a little bit of headache but right here it tells you we've got acl acn and green so the green we're going to attach our green to our green we're going to attach the white goes to the blue and then the brown or red right here it's actually brown but it's kind of weird looking the brown goes to the black so we've got our butt ends and we're just going to attach those three things and the reason why we're attaching it with butt ends i'm going to be using butt ends right here these are number 15 butt slices right here i do this so it'll look really nice and professional i want a professional look and i look right here that is going

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